"The majority of the articles in this volume are based on papers presented at a Jewish Law Association conference held in February, 2010 at Fordham University Law School, New York" -- page [vi]. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Agunah: the Manchester analysis: summary report. Daniel B. Sinclair -- Maimonides on testimony in Agunah and divorce: epistemic implications / Michael Baris -- Causation and responsibility in BK 26a-27a / Amy Birkan -- The suspected adulteress and the Nazarite (Numbers 5:11-6:1-21) / Calum Carmichael -- The principle of proportionality and its reflections in Israeli and Jewish law / Aviad Hacohen -- Jewish law and state law: "transformative accomodation" and the JFS case in England / Bernard S. Jackson -- Do the parties to a contract need actual knowledge of civil laws or commercial practices in order for these laws or practices to function as valid customs in Jewish law? / Ron S. Kleinman -- By any other name? Kiddushin, same-sex relationships, and halakhic discourse in the liberal movements / Gail Labovitz -- The Jewish community of Jerusalem according to seventeenth century Hebrew legal documents / Ruth Lamdan -- "The Agreement for Mutual Respect" : the workings of a prenuptial agreement for the prevention of get-refusal as a halakhic autonomous tool / Rachel Levmore -- Resolution of inheritance cases of Jews and Jewish converts to Christianity in consular courts in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century / Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky -- Prolegomenon to a new study of rabbinic inheritance law, on the fiftieth anniversary of Reuven Yaron's Gifts in Contemplation of Death / Jonathan S. Milgram -- Annulment of divorce in Israeli rabbinical courts / Amiḥai Radzyner -- "Those who "play" with children delay the coming of mashiaḥ" / Paul Shrell-Fox -- Autonomy in matters of life and death and the withdrawal of life-support in the responsa of R. Moses Feinstein / Daniel B. Sinclair -- Agunah: the Manchester analysis: summary report.
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